Learn about the tools and features for working on assignments

The top of the lesson page has the main nav bar and the function toolbar. The function toolbar has a few new tools on it when you are in an assignment.

On the right side of the lesson are several tools (item D below). These tools allow you to:

• Print the assignment. See Print assignment text and images.
• Listen to an audio version of the assignment text. See Listen to audio version of assignments.

The body of the page (item E below) is the presentation part of the lesson. This is the part you need to read. It may have videos and slide shows to watch, pictures to see and vocabulary and spelling words to practice. Most lessons have one or more vocabulary words used in the lesson. You should become familiar with all of these words. Each of the vocabulary words is recorded.

• Click the Play button to hear the word.

There may also be links to take you to more on the lesson topic. You may even come across a fun activity to practice what you are learning! In some of your lessons you may see a date in blue. This opens a timeline. Click it to see what events were taking place around that same time.

Use the Vocabulary Arcade games to learn vocabulary words

Below your Vocabulary words, you may see a Vocab Arcade icon.

• Click the icon to open a page showing the vocabulary games you can play to help you learn the definitions and spelling of your vocabulary words.

• To play the game, click the icon.

While playing the game, your lesson becomes inactive so that you can practice spelling of the vocabulary words or learning their definitions. When you finish the game and close it, your lesson is active again. To learn more about the vocabulary games, see Practice and learn using the Resources' tools and activities.

Read lesson sections and work on questions

Make sure you read each section of the lesson carefully so you can answer the questions. Once you think you understand what you read you are ready to start working on the problems (questions). You can read a section and then work on the questions at the end of that section, or you can read all sections and then answer the questions. Example F below shows the Read Next Section and Work on Questions buttons.

• To move to the next section, click the Read Next Section button.
• To answer the questions, click the Work on Questions button. See Answer assignment questions (problems).

Tip: You can also click the Questions button on the assignment toolbar to answer the questions.

When you've answered all the questions, you need to mark the lesson as complete so that Monarch knows it is done and you can get a grade for your work. If you just exit the lesson without marking it as complete, you won't get a grade for the lesson until it is marked as complete. See Mark assignments as complete.